And that’s merely days after he proclaimed Silva as the best pound for pound fighter in MMA today.

So why the change of heart? Well, after the mess Anderson Silva pulled last Saturday in UFC 112: Invincible, White was not pleased. Sure, Silva retained his belt in Abu Dhabi, but the way he spent most of the fight taunting his challenger Demian Maia and staying away from any kind of contact, watching the entire fiasco was like watching paint dry.

White said he was embarrassed by the way Anderson Silva defended his UFC middleweight title. And if you saw UFC 112 last weekend, you can’t really blame the disgruntled UFC president for feeling exactly that.

Silva dominated Demian Maia for the first two rounds before spending the next three backpedaling and posturing. Silva’s antics not only frustrated White but referee Dan Miragliotta as well. Miragliotta even warned Silva in the fifth round that if he keeps it up, he would deduct a point.

”This was a big event for us tonight, it was a really big moment. The whole last three weeks of my life have been leading to this event,” UFC president Dana White said right after the fight. ”The people in this country, including the media, have really gotten behind this thing with support like I have never seen anywhere. I’m really embarrassed.”

”He [Silva] feels that he doesn’t owe the fans an apology,” White…

Arguably one of the best fighters to ever enter the Octagon, GSP is rumored to walk away from the UFC to prepare for the Olympics.

You read it, Georges St-Pierre, scheduled to co-main event UFC 111 on March, is rumored to walk away from the UFC to train and represent Canada at the 2012 Olympics in freestyle wrestling.

But did the words ”I’m walking away from the UFC” really came out of the mouth of reigning UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre? Well, Randy Couture claims GSP didn’t say anything about walking away. In fact, Couture says St-Pierre is frustrated about the way the media took his comments about the POSSIBILITY of training for the 2012 Olympics out of context.

”I talked to him at length at an appearance,” Randy Couture stated. ”He’s a little frustrated with the media, frankly. He said that they are blowing this whole thing out of proportion.”

So if the media blew ”this whole thing out of proportion,” what exactly did GSP say? Apparently, he was talking about the possibility of training for the freestyle wrestling competition in the 2012 Olympics.

St-Pierre said that to enter the 2012 Olympic Games, he ”would have to focus on wrestling and dedicate myself 100 percent for a period of time. I would not retire now but if I decided to do it, I would have to dedicate myself 100 percent, I would say maybe for a year and a half or so.”

Randy Couture said GSP’s comments were misconstrued and…

Of course we’d be betting on some matches.

This Saturday, the much anticipated UFC 100 will finally arrive as the biggest promotion in mixed martial arts has packed together one mega event with some huge blockbuster cards.

One of which is the unification title fight between UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and UFC interim champion Frank Mir. This is the second meeting between the two heavyweights where the winner will be named as the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion.

Their first meeting ended with some controversy with referee Steve Mazzagatti giving Frank Mir a break when he stood both fighters up and penalized Brock Lesnar for allegedly hitting Mir at the back of the head. Lesnar was in control of Mir before Mazzagatti’s stoppage. When the fight resumed, Mir already had the momentum as he caught Lesnar’s leg to make the former WWE Superstar tap.

Another match you should watch out for is the UFC welterweight championship…

To be honest, not many people think so.

On July 11 this weekend, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre will defend his title against no.1 contender Thiago Alves at UFC 100, arguably the most anticipated event in the history of MMA.

It is understandable for people to pick Georges St-Pierre as the favorite to win and defend his title. After all, he’s been virtually carrying the welterweight division ever since he decided to have a career inside the Octagon.

Still, Thiago Alves remains confident that he’ll be able to get that title off of GSP’s waist. He even said that he’ll shock the world with, get this, a knockout victory over the biggest MMA star to come out of Canada.

Alves will rival St-Pierre in sheer size, as the two men are probably the two biggest fighters currently fighting in the welterweight division. But St-Pierre believes the Brazilian’s mass will not provide the difference in the contest.

Georges St-Pierre has been the better man in 11 of his past 12 contests, but many MMA observers agree with the champ in assessing Alves as his biggest test to date. St-Pierre admits there’s pressure as a champion in the UFC to keep his belt, but ”Rush” also finds that kind of pressure to provide extra motivation inside the cage.

With each win that St-Pierre collects, his legend and…

You read it, the City of Brotherly Love, for the first time ever, will feel just how intense the ”brotherly love” inside the Octagon really is.

Yep, UFC 101: Declaration will be bringing Philadelphia its first taste of the UFC on August 8 at the Wachovia Center. And since this will be the first time Dana White will be bringing his sport on this part of the Eastern time zone, they’re bringing the big guns with them.

Highlighting the event will be the BJ Penn – Kenny Florian UFC Lightweight Championship as Penn defends his title for the second time against Florian, the number one contender.

Without a shadow of a doubt, UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn is the undisputed king of the division. At 35-5-1, Penn is practically on everyone’s list of best fighters in the world, pound for pound.

And I’m assuming Manny ”The Pacman” Pacquiao is NOT INCLUDED in any of these lists. (And it should be…)

Penn is undefeated at 155 pounds since 2002, beating the likes of Jens Pulver, Joe Stevenson and Sean Sherk in successive contests. Thanks to a humbling loss to Georges St-Pierre when Penn challenged GSP for his Welterweight title, Penn was shunned back to the Lightweight division much to the dismay of other fighters in the weight class.

And since BJ Penn has been simply unstoppable as a…